Naomi Alderman

“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not.…

— Naomi Alderman

“That is how a man speaks. And that is why.”

— Naomi Alderman

Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not…

— Naomi Alderman

I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give…

— Naomi Alderman

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

— Naomi Alderman

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

— Naomi Alderman

Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero…

— Naomi Alderman

We all know that the desire for perfection can get in the way of authenticity and enjoyment; it's the same with games.…

— Naomi Alderman

I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

— Naomi Alderman

Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.

— Naomi Alderman

“She had been here for the protests three years earlier; yes, she had held up her banner and shouted and signed her…

— Naomi Alderman

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our…

— Naomi Alderman

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

— Naomi Alderman

“intuition is just like that: sudden and complete, as if there were machinery working behind her eyes that even she has no…

— Naomi Alderman

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the…

— Naomi Alderman

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

— Naomi Alderman

One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because…

— Naomi Alderman

After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There…

— Naomi Alderman

We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child…

— Naomi Alderman

I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first…

— Naomi Alderman

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they…

— Naomi Alderman

“When the people change, the palace cannot hold.”

— Naomi Alderman

I find the sneeriness about 'selfie-culture' quite boring - I'm excited by young people taking control of their own images and finding…

— Naomi Alderman

“When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised. To the woman with a skein, everything looks like a fight.”

— Naomi Alderman